FDA-cleared profile

TeraRecon Aorta.CT (1.1.0)

TeraRecon, Inc.

TeraRecon Aorta.CT (1.1.0) automatically segments the aorta and labels 22 aortic anatomical landmarks from adult contrast CTA DICOM for trained professionals' review in standard-of-care planning; it does not alter the original images or provide a diagnosis and excludes the FDA-listed device/anatomy conditions.

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Clinical details

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Exact purpose
TeraRecon Aorta.CT (1.1.0) automatically segments the aorta and labels 22 aortic anatomical landmarks from adult contrast CTA DICOM for trained professionals' review in standard-of-care planning; it does not alter the original images or provide a diagnosis and excludes the FDA-listed device/anatomy conditions.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-07
Intended users
Trained professionals responsible for patient management; results are used with other patient information and the standard of care.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Care setting and population
Adult cardiac or abdominal aortic CTA review, measurement, and procedure-planning workflows.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Workflow role
Automatic aortic segmentation and landmarking to support clinician measurements and procedure planning; the qualified professional remains responsible for interpretation and patient management.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Required input
Contrast CT angiography DICOM images of the adult cardiac and/or abdominal aorta.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Output and human action
Automatic 3D aortic lumen and wall-to-wall segmentation with 22 labeled aortic anatomical landmarks, delivered as DICOM result files viewable by DICOM-compliant systems.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Limitations
The indication is for adults and excludes patients with a pre-existing aortic device, bicuspid aortic valve anomaly, aortic dissection, aortic rupture, or abdominal metallic devices. Motion, occluded vessels, lack of contrast, artifacts, or landmarks outside the field of view can prevent annotation or affect output. The device does not alter original input data and does not provide a diagnosis.
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Regulatory identity

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FDA submission
K243158
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
CT/CTA
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Anatomy
Heart/Cardiovascular
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Clearance type
510(k)
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Decision date
2025-01-23
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FDA status
FDA-cleared
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Implementation

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Integration
The exact submission accepts CTA DICOM and returns DICOM result files for viewing by DICOM-compliant systems; local routing, viewer behavior, identifiers, and report ingestion require site acceptance testing.
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Deployment and data flow
The exact submission is a containerized application that can run on off-the-shelf hardware or on a cloud platform; the reviewed sources do not establish the current site-specific hosting, storage, retention, availability, or service-level arrangement.
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Security and privacy
Not established in reviewed sources
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The reviewed exact packet and official regulatory page do not establish current scoped security controls, encryption, PHI flow, retention, access control, audit, vulnerability management, or incident response for the installed K243158 release.

Training and support
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
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The FDA indication requires trained professionals and understanding of capabilities and limitations, but no exact-version curriculum, competency assessment, or support terms were established.

Monitoring and change control
Monitor adult CTA eligibility, contrast and field-of-view adequacy, motion or artifact-related failures, segmentation and landmark review, DICOM result delivery, failed or repeated analyses, reader overrides, downtime, updates, complaints, and exact-submission recalls.
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Buyer acceptance guidance derived from the exact FDA workflow and validation scope; it is not a claimed vendor monitoring service.

Current Aorta.CT regulatory workflow

TeraRecon's current regulatory page describes Aorta.CT as automatic 3D aortic segmentation and landmarking from contrast CT angiography DICOM, with DICOM result files usable by DICOM-compliant systems and no alteration of original data or diagnosis. This is current product-family context, not exact-version performance evidence.

product family · checked 2026-09-07

Containerized DICOM result workflow

The exact FDA submission describes a containerized application on off-the-shelf hardware or a cloud platform and DICOM result output; confirm container runtime, compute, storage, routing, and upgrade behavior during local qualification.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-07

Evidence

Performance evidence

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Evidence summary
K243158 FDA evidence is a retrospective manufacturer-submitted regulatory validation. Segmentation results come from 170 adult aortic CTA studies; landmarking required 29 supplemental studies after field-of-view and artifact exclusions, so the exact unique total across endpoints is not inferred. No independent paper or trial was promoted in this timeboxed review.
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Reported sensitivity
Research pending
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Reported specificity
Research pending
  • Needs research
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This field has not been curated yet.

Aortic lumen segmentation mean Dice

0.88 Dice coefficient

  • EndpointMean aortic lumen segmentation Dice score versus ground truth
  • Population170 adult aortic CTA studies meeting the FDA-described inclusion and exclusion criteria
  • Tested versionTeraRecon Aorta.CT (1.1.0) configuration described in K243158

Aorta wall-to-wall segmentation mean Dice

0.9 Dice coefficient

  • EndpointMean aorta wall-to-wall segmentation Dice score versus ground truth
  • Population170 adult aortic CTA studies meeting the FDA-described inclusion and exclusion criteria
  • Tested versionTeraRecon Aorta.CT (1.1.0) configuration described in K243158

K243158 aortic segmentation regulatory validation

  • DesignRetrospective cohort validation comparing automated aortic lumen and wall-to-wall segmentation with established ground truth.
  • Population170 adults with cardiac and/or abdominal aortic CTA, enriched for aortic dilation/aneurysm and/or aortic valve disease; at least half of ground-truth data came from US patients across three US geographic regions.
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionTeraRecon Aorta.CT (1.1.0) configuration described in K243158
  • Samplen=170
  • IndependenceSponsor or vendor study

K243158

Final scanner distribution was 77 Siemens, 33 GE, 35 Philips, and 25 Canon. Manufacturer-submitted FDA evidence, not an independent clinical-outcome study.

K243158 aortic landmarking regulatory validation

  • DesignRetrospective regulatory validation of 22 aortic landmark outputs against ground-truth annotations using vessel identification, distance, and bifurcation-area criteria.
  • PopulationThe landmarking evaluation began with the 170-study cohort and added 29 supplemental studies because 40-45% of landmarks were outside the field of view or affected by artifacts; annotatable landmarks averaged 73 per target with a minimum of 63.
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionTeraRecon Aorta.CT (1.1.0) configuration described in K243158
  • IndependenceSponsor or vendor study

K243158

All 22 landmarks passed the stated 80% case-wise criterion and all exact 95% confidence-interval lower bounds were at least 70%. No exact unique total across this context and the segmentation set is inferred.

Costs and setup

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Pricing and total cost
Not established in reviewed sources
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No public list price or exact contract unit for K243158 was established in the reviewed official sources.

Reimbursement and coding
Research pending
  • Needs research
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No payer-policy research was applied to this dossier; product-specific coverage or claim eligibility is not established.

Safety and lifecycle

Postmarket record

Recall and adverse-event records are shown only after product matching. Adverse-event reports do not establish incidence or causality.

Postmarket safety review
The exact-submission FDA recall query returned no native recall record for K243158. This is not a comprehensive safety clearance and does not exclude family, later-version, or adverse-event information.
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Research record

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Human reviewedStatus
2026-09-07Last searched
24Fields reviewed
11Source classes checked
0Screened PubMed leads
0Screened trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

The stored PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov candidate arrays were screened and were empty. No paper or trial was promoted; empty stored arrays do not establish that no external literature or trials exist. The current discovery snapshot contains 0 PubMed and 0 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records; its dated, count-matched human screening remains current. Unlinked candidates remain quarantined. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 0 postmarket candidate records; 0 have been reviewed (0 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.

Candidate leads were screened against the exact product and tested version. Unlinked records remain quarantined.

Source classes: fda ai list, fda decision summary, acr ai central product, vendor regulatory page, fda device recall, literature index, trial registry, stored candidate metadata, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources & history

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Source ledger

  1. FDA 510(k) K243158: TeraRecon Aorta.CT (1.1.0)

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-07

    Scope: identity, clinicalUse, modality, anatomy, intendedUsers, careSetting, workflowRole, input, output, limitations, integration, deployment, evidenceMetrics, evidenceStudies

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-08-31

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. TeraRecon Aorta.CT (1.1.0) model card (K243158)

    American College of Radiology - Published 2026-08-17 - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: intendedUsers, careSetting, output, evidenceSummary, integration, anatomy, evidenceStudies, implementationCapabilities

  4. PubMed biomedical literature index

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery

  5. ClinicalTrials.gov study registry

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery, studyStatus

  6. openFDA Device Recall API

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-02

    Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching

  7. TeraRecon regulatory descriptions: Aorta.CT

    TeraRecon - Accessed 2026-09-07

    Scope: productFamily, clinicalUse, output, implementationCapabilities, limitations

  8. openFDA exact recall query for K243158

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-07

    Scope: postmarketSafety

Research history

  1. K243158 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    human reviewed

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